A swarm of bees stopped play between the Yankees and Red Sox for seven minutes Tuesday afternoon.

The bees were in the left-field corner, and the grounds crew shot about a swimming pool's worth of bug spray to get rid of them.

Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira figured he had the solution. Teixeira was waving two bottles of honey from the dugout, hoping to get the attention of the crew.

Others were having fun with it, too. Broadcaster John Sterling asked whether the bees would "get drunk and fall over" if you threw beer on them, and Yankees manager Joe Girardi was rattling off lines from the movie "Tommy Boy."

The George M. Steinbrenner Field crowd cheered when Mike Carp courageously returned to left.